Young students learn about government

photos by ERIN MCCRACKEN / COURIER & PRESS Greg Freyberger and Carrie Roelle, both attorneys at Kahn, Dees, Donovan and Kahn in Evansville, explain to Tracie Stafford’s second grade class at Evans Elementary how their class will be run like a community, complete with a government, during this school year. The class will hold elections for different roles that each student will have for the year. This is the second year Stafford has taken on this yearlong project and believes the lessons that they learn not only will serve them well in the classroom but help them understand how life operates the real community and city where they live.

ERIN MCCRACKEN / COURIER & PRESS Isaiah Hunter and Rah’Nique Stinson raise their hands to answer questions posed by Greg Freyberger and Carrie Roelle, both attorneys at Kahn, Dees, Donovan and Kahn, who visited their class on Tuesday, September 10, 2013. Tracie Stafford’s second grade class is having help from the outside community to help learn about government. The class is learning about government, so they understand how their class will work being mirrored like a government and community complete with a banking system used to help students grow and learn life lessons.

ERIN MCCRACKEN / COURIER & PRESS Tracie Stafford, second grade teacher at Evans School and her students Jada Huffine and MarCavion Madison, work on pictures about what they want to do when they grow up to show their visitors, Carrie Roelle, right and Greg Freyberger, both attorneys at Kahn, Dees, Donovan and Kahn in Evansville on Tuesday, September 10, 2013. Roelle and Freyberger are helping Stafford and the class learn about government throughout this upcoming school year.

De’Mariyah Davis, right, whispers in JooSeon Tea Norfleet’s ear the saying “we the people” as they play a game of telephone in their second grade class while learning about government on Tuesday September 10, 2013. The class often plays the game telephone so they understand the importance of good communication, a lesson which is vital to keeping order in their classroom community.

Roman Carter holds up a note card gives the definition of the word “evidence” as he and his classmates learn about government and the judicial system with the help of Greg Freyberger and Carrie Roelle, both attorneys at Kahn, Dees, Donovan and Kahn, who were guest in Tracie Stafford’s second grade class on Tuesday, September 10, 2013.

DeAsia Beans uses a banana, a snack which was brought in by Greg Freyberger and Carrie Roelle, both attorneys at Kahn, Dees, Donovan and Kahn, as a phone to talk to her classmates as they take a break from learning about government in their second grade class on Tuesday September 10, 2013. this year Tracie Stafford is running their class on the principle of developing a community, that includes a government and banking system used to help students grow and learn life lessons.

ERIN MCCRACKEN / COURIER & PRESS Carrie Roelle answers Sebastion Wilson’s (cq) questions before she leaves following a visit with Tracie Stafford’s second grade class on Tuesday, September 10, 2013. The students are learning about government and different roles people’s professions play in the community by mirroring a community and government in their classroom this year.

ERIN MCCRACKEN / COURIER & PRESS Roman Carter and Isabelle Collignon work on essays and pictures of what they want to be when they grow up to show Greg Freyberger and Carrie Roelle, both attorneys at Kahn, Dees, Donovan and Kah, who were visiting their second grade class on Tuesday, September 10, 2013. Roman wants to be a football player and Isabelle wants to be a nurse.

ERIN MCCRACKEN / COURIER & PRESS Greg Freyberger, an attorney at Kahn, Dees, Donovan and Kahn learns from DeAsia Beans that she wants to be a soccer player when she grows up during a class visit on Tuesday, September 10, 2013 at Evans School.